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E. B. PALMER.

DRESS CHART.

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E; nLLsWoRTn PALMER, or BARABOO, WISCONSIN.

DREss-CHART.

SPECIFICATION forming part-.fof `Letters Patent No. 252,507, datedJanuary 17 1882.

Application filed October S, 1881. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.'

Beit known that I, E. ELLsWonTH PALMER, of Baraboo, in the county ofSauk and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Dress-Charts; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention,

4which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification, and in Which- Figure l is aplan of the chart which designates the dress-waist and skirt-rule, andFig.`

i that class, having-for its object to simplify and facilitate theiruse, set forth. y

My improved plan or system as applied to dress charts consists of onlytwo separate charts, (designated respectively as Figs. 1 and 2 on theannexed sheet of drawings.)

' Fig. 1 represents the chart for marking and cutting the pattern of thewaist and skirt, and comprises a back waist-measure, (marked A,) a frontwaist-measure, (marked B,) anda darts'cale, (designated by the letterC.) 0n the opposite side or edge of the chart is the back shoulder-rule,(marked D,) and above that the front and back shoulder-rule, the crossbasque dart rule'and the side-form rule, (indicated by the letters E, F,and G, respectively.) At thetop of the chart is the dartrule H, and atthe botas hereinafter morefully tom the skirtrule I, while theneck-opening K is located between the skirt-rule and back shoulder-rulein the lower left-hand corner of the plan, as represented in Fig. I ofthe drawings. In the bodycf thechart are the scales and measures fortaking the size, which enables the' chart to be used for fitting anyligure from that ot' a small child to a robust'woman. The use of thesemeasures is well understood and requires no further explanation.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a plan of the sleevechart for fitting and cuttingthe sleeve-pattern.

The measure is taken from the middle line, (marked L,) along the scaleson both edges ot' the chart, which is curved and tapers from its base Mtoa point, N, as clearly shown in the drawings.

I am aware of the Letters PatentNo. 1817,58?, granted on February 20,1877, to Lucy J. Bixby, for certain pattern-charts for cutting garments,anddo not claim anything therein shown and claimed. The constructionofthe Bixbycharts differs from mine in essential particulars andcouldnot be used in the same manner as mine.`

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ot" the UnitedStates, is-

The pattern-charts herein shown and described, and ddenoted respectivelyFig. 1 andl Fig. 2, of the configuration shown, and provided` with theseries of `measures, scales, and rules, arranged on the respectivecharts in the manner shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto axed mysignature in presence of two Witnesses.

n. ELLswoRrH PALMER.

Witnesses: i

-NELLIE DYKE, H. C. HANsBRoUeH.

